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Is education completely unnecessary to fulfill the American dream?
According to the passage "the dangers of reality TV" by Timothy Sexton, the reality television is sending a several and confusing messages to the young people by stating that reality television gives the idea that  image is more valuable than ability,  that competition is important and education is useless. 

I think the education is the key to succeed in life, because we have the ability to learn whatever we want and with a little effort we can be whoever we want.
With education you don't need to have the best body or be a super star to get a job, unless you get a job humiliating your self on national television like the reality shows this days. Everything you need you have it in you brain. Also with education you can go everywhere and you will have something interesting to say because you have learn about life and how to interact with people. For example i went to a job interview, twenty of us were waiting , i saw three beautiful girls waiting, none of us got the job except for one person with a high level of education, this remind me of the show " the bachelor " where is a men trying to find his future wife in a house full of beautiful girls, he doesn't know anything about their education level  just that they have nice body and they are pretty, i don't think beauty buys knowledge.

 Second with education you can cross obstacles , meet and help people, understand the reality of life, learn the difference between  good and bad. People without education end up on the streets probably selling or doing drugs , stealing and killing each others.

Last there is nothing more satisfactory  that know that you tried your best to become a better person and with all those sacrifices you can live your life full of knowledge. For example, my uncle die when he was thirty, he went to school to be a doctor, but he never had the opportunity to become one, at least he die happy knowing that he tried his best.

In conclusion, not everything is about the money, money doesn't buy happiness or knowledge, you need education in order to have a good future and a better quality of life.

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Self - Determination
Sometimes we don't know if the world that we live in is real, we don't know if the people who live in is real , who make the rules and why we have rules should be the question. If people created the rules that means they made mistakes and probably that was the best solution to have perfection in our society.
Three years ago i meet Carlo Dominguez a good friend  who came to the United States to try to get a better quality of life and also support for his family, he came with an student visa, that was the only way for him to emigrate from his homeland Costa Rica, he was going to the school but he needed money to survive, he found a job and decided to stay in the country as an illegal disobeying the law.
Laws are rules created by the people, he disobeyed the rules because the situation in his country was difficult and he thought that staying here was a hard but the right choice. He was expecting many good things to happen to his life for example  the opportunity to have the legal documentation to stay and work in the country and the opportunity to bring his family were always his goals, he knew he was doing something wrong but it was worth it.
One day when he was driving to his house a young driver passed a red light and crashed his car, it was a terrible situation because he didn't have a driver's license, he was arrested and deported back to his country, he basically lost what he earned, but he return to his family, he found a job  and his living a great life now. Did the consequences to his disobedience confirm that he made the right choice? Who knows, he didn't have the chance to obtain his goals, instead his life changed and toke a different route, life is weird and complicated.

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According to his passage " I Know the Truth, so don't bother me with facts " by Jeffrey Kluger, he states that humans have been fools for long time and we are so easy to believe in rumors.
R.Kelly Garret and Erik Nisbet, researchers in Ohio created a study to analyze 750 people, they ask them about the planned mosque in downtown Manhattan and most of them believed in these project. They came with the conclusion that is easy to change peoples mind with insinuating pictures and even with evidence they were given indicating the facts, they want to believe that they know the truth
People do take  time to learn the facts but even with them is  not enough. First we need to obtain as much information as we can to try to understand the reality of the actions made by the other. For example, my best friend got  fired for no reason and he refused to get an explanation from his boss of his acts. Second we can not believe in rumors, people like to over talk creating a world of controversy giving us wrong information. Lastly, we can not live in a world of fantasy, the world these days is not an easy place to live, to many people have different minds, some of them good and some others bad,
In conclusion, we need to obtain a better information in order to have a better idea of tomorrow.

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Claim: I think that no matter what studies reveal it is up to us to find facts and make our decisions based on that information.
Reason1: We need to obtain as much information as we can to try to understand the reality of the actions made by the others.
Reason2: We can not believe in rumors.
Reason3; We can not leave in a world of fantasy.

I think that no matter what studies reveal it is up to us to find facts and make our decisions based on that information because we need to obtain as much information as we can to try to understand the reality of the actions made by the others, we can not believe in rumors, we can not leave in a world of fantasy.

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We live in a world full of products and full of ideas to make these products be part of our daily life style. In the article "Hype" the author Kalle Lasn explains  how the advertising in America is increasing more and more every day that we can even have a moment of peace without a commercial coming from any kind of source ,every where you go, every where you look, you will find a piece of an ad reminding you that everything you need you will find it. every day 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 TV commercials are dumped into North America's society.
The marketing industry created the most powerful ideas to make us be part of a society addicted to ads, putting ideas in our minds, taking us where the product is ,sales and more sales are  making us robots guided by lights, signs and billboards.
In our  society we face daily circumstances of our lives for example driving to work can be sometimes stress full, trying to focus on the road is not an easy job with the thousands and thousands of billboards on both sides of the road, going on line without an ad is impossible because it is hard to ignore them.
We need to escape to a quite place and relax in order to clear our minds and have a moment of peace.

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 1. The philosopher Plato, author of " The Allegory of the Cave " was about Socrates and Glaucon having a conversation of human behavior. This passage show us in a philosophical world idea by Socrates 500 b.c.e   the reality of our lives, people living underground with the legs and necks chained so that they can not move , they  can only see all kind of shadows coming from the fire on the other side of the wall and listen to the echo of the voices coming from the same direction. That is all they do all day and night. The question is, what if one day one of the prisoners is released ? He will be able to see the reality of the outside , the real wold, the real life and then he will realize that he was living in a cave a world of false notions.
2.This is my first time in college, a big challenge in my life i was probably chained before, until i decided to learn more , i realized that there is a world outside  full of ideas and full of tools to have a better life

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According to his passage " I Know the truth, so don't bother me with facts " by Jeffrey Kluger, he states that humans have been fools for long time and we are so easy to believe in rumors, researches in Ohio created an study to analyze 750 people, they ask them about the planned mosque in downtown Manhattan and most of them believed in these project, they came with the conclusion that is easy to change peoples minds with insinuating pictures and even with evidence they were given indicating the facts, they want to believe what they know the truth . People do take  time to learn the facts but even with them is  not enough, we just don't like to hear that we are wrong.